Realism reader / edited by Colin Elman and Michael A. Jensen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- SECTION ONE Realist research programs -- 2.Classical realism: The twentieth century -- The beginnings of a science / Edward Hallett Carr -- The realist critique / Edward Hallett Carr -- The moral blindness of scientific man / Hans J. Morgenthau -- A realist theory of international politics / Hans J. Morgenthau -- Idealist internationalism and the security dilemma / John H. Herz -- The pole of power and the pole of indifference / Arnold Wolfers -- 3.Balance of power theory -- The balance of power: prescription, concept, or propaganda? / Ernst B. Haas -- Aims / Edward Vose Gulick -- Feedback / Robert Jervis -- Balancing on land and at sea: do states ally against the leading global power? / William R. Thompson -- 4.Neorealism -- Political structures / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Anarchic orders and balances of power / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Realist thought and neorealist theory / Kenneth N. Waltz --

Contents note continued: The origins of war in neorealist theory / Kenneth N. Waltz -- 5.Defensive structural realism -- Cooperation under the security dilemma / Robert Jervis -- Alliance formation and the balance of world power / Stephen M. Walt -- Introduction / Stephen Van Evera -- Realists as optimists: cooperation as self-help / Charles L. Glaser -- Breaking out of the security dilemma: realism, reassurance, and the problem of uncertainty / Evan Braden Montgomery -- 6.Offensive structural realism -- Anarchy and the struggle for power / John J. Mearsheimer -- Mearsheimer's world: offensive realism and the struggle for security / Glenn H. Snyder -- The'poster child for offensive realism': America as a global hegemon / Christopher Layne -- 7.Rise and fall realism -- Power transition / A.F.K. Organski -- The power transition research program: A Lakatosian analysis / Jack S. Levy -- The nature of international political change / Robert Gilpin --

Contents note continued: Hegemonic war and international change / Robert Gilpin -- Declining power and the preventive motivation for war / Jack S. Levy -- Neorealism and the myth of bipolar stability: toward a new dynamic realist theory of major war / Dale C. Copeland -- 8.Neoclassical realism -- The necessary and natural evolution of structural realism / Charles L. Glaser -- Introduction: neoclassical realism, the state, and foreign policy / Norrin M. Ripsman -- Chain gangs and passed bucks: predicting alliance patterns in multipolarity / Jack Snyder -- Unanswered threats: a neoclassical realist theory of underbalancing / Randall L. Schweller -- Neoclassical realism and the national interest: presidents, domestic politics, and major military interventions / Colin Dueck -- SECTION TWO Critiques and responses -- 9.Engaging liberal critiques -- Taking preferences seriously: a liberal theory of international politics / Andrew Moravcsik --

Contents note continued: Is anybody not an (international relations) liberal? / Brian C. Rathbun -- How liberalism produces democratic peace / John M. Owen -- Kant or cant: the myth of the democratic peace / Christopher Layne -- 10.Engaging the institutionalist critiques -- Neoliberalism, neorealism, and world politics / David A. Baldwin -- Institutional theory as a research program / Lisa L. Martin -- Anarchy and the limits of cooperation: a realist critique of the newest liberal institutionalism / Joseph M. Grieco -- The false promise of international institutions / John J. Mearsheimer -- 11.Engaging the constructivist and English School critiques -- Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics / Alexander Wendt -- Culture clash: assessing the importance of ideas in security studies / Michael C. Desch -- The English School vs. American realism: a meeting of minds or divided by a common language? / Richard Little --

Contents note continued: A realist critique of the English School / Dale C Copeland -- SECTION THREE Realist theories and contemporary international politics -- 12.Realism, American hegemony, and soft balancing -- The stability of a unipolar world / William C. Wohlforth -- The unipolar illusion revisited: the coming end of the United States' unipolar moment / Christopher Layne -- Soft balancing against the United States / Robert A. Pape -- Waiting for balancing: why the world is not pushing back / Gerard Alexander -- 13.Realism and European cooperation -- The future of the American pacifier / John J. Mearsheimer -- European Union security and defense policy: response to unipolarity? / Barry R. Posen -- Still not pushing back: why the European Union is not balancing the United States / Anand Menon -- 14.Realism, non-state actors, and the rise of China -- Structural realism in a more complex world / Charles L. Glaser -- The security dilemma and ethnic conflict / Barry R. Posen --

Contents note continued: China's unpeaceful rise / John J. Mearsheimer -- The tragedy of offensive realism: classical realism and the rise of China / Jonathan Kirshner -- 15.Is realism heading in the right direction? -- The realist paradigm and degenerative versus progressive research programs: an appraisal of neotraditional research on Waltz's balancing proposition / John A. Vasquez -- Evaluating theories / Kenneth N. Waltz -- The progressive power of realism / Stephen M. Walt -- Is anybody still a realist? / Andrew Moravcsik -- Correspondence: brother, can you spare a paradigm? / Andrew Moravcsik.

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